Bookeen Cybook e-readers

French company Booken, specializing in the development of devices for reading books , lets readers called the Cybook. These e- books are popular in Europe and have recently been officially delivered to the countries of the CIS. All models Booken stylish slim plastic case combined with sufficient battery energy intensive .

OPUS

ODISSEY 2013 EDITION

ODISSEY HD FRONTLIGHT

Model OPUS - devices c five-inch screen (E-ink VizPlex). On the right side of the body are comfortable turning the key . To automatically change the screen orientation to the reader is equipped with a gyro sensor . The book supports formats FB2, Epub, PDF, TXT. Bookshelf displays the covers of books , authors' names and titles of the books , but does not support folders. However, there is a special folder view . So you add all the files on the memory card are displayed one by one group, but with the ability to sort by author or genre. Supplied with no cover - it must be purchased separately.

Models ODISSEY 2013 EDITION and ODISSEY HD FRONTLIGHT - Almost the same model. ODISSEY HD FRONTLIGHT different from ODISSEY 2013 EDITION only by the adjustable LED backlight. Both models are available in a black casing with turning keys located on both sides of the screen . Touch screen is used , E-ink Pearl HD ( 758x1024 point). There is a module Wi-Fi to download books from the store Booken, see RSS- news or web pages. Support format text such as the model and OPUS. Shifts in reading Russian books Epub format displayed in accordance with the rules of Russian language, but for a general lack of FB2 format.

General characteristics for all e-book readers:

Disadvantages of construction and equipment: The availability of slots for a micro-SD card , stylish design, capacity battery, button
turning pages on each side.

Design and equipment flaws: Poor equipment. The cover must be bought separately.

Advantages of the software: Format support FB2, display the names of the authors and titles of books, with anti-aliasing fonts, work with dictionaries.

Software flaws: Poor support FB2, no hyphenation, footnotes at the bottom of the page, the error when you return to the last page read with the device is activated , there is no third-party firmware and application software enhancement for Russian consumers made very reluctantly.

Selection of resources of the Internet about Booken Cybook is in section "Links."

What to read?

Yann Martel "Life of Pi". After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Since it was first published in 2002, Life of Pi has entered mainstream consciousness and remains one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.

What to read?

Jean Kwok "Girl in Translation". When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles....

James M. Cain "Metro 2034". An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve...